Telefoni Bianchi (pronounced [teˈlɛːfoni ˈbjaŋki]; white telephones) films, also called deco films, were made by the Italian film industry in the 1930s and the 1940s in imitation of American comedies of the time in a sharp contrast to the other important style of the era, calligrafismo, which was highly artistic.[1] The cinema of Telefoni Bianchi was born from the success of the Italian film comedy of the early 1930s; it was a lighter version, cleansed of any intellectualism or veiled social criticism.[2]
- ^ Brunetta, Gian Piero (2000). Storia del cinema mondiale (in Italian). Vol. III. Einaudi. pp. 357–359. ISBN 88-06-14528-2.
- ^ "Telefoni Bianchi" (in Italian). Retrieved 14 November 2022.